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Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

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How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective experience into words, while her characters frequently lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. Iseult Gillespie helps make sense of these disparities to prepare you for the next time you read Virgina Woolf.

Woolf’s use of collective consciousness in "The Waves":

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Iseult Gillespie
  • Director Sarah Saidan
  • Animator Mai Nguyen, Eve Deroeck
  • Compositor Marie Vieillevie
  • Composer Stephen LaRosa
  • Sound Designer Stephen LaRosa
  • Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
  • Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
  • Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
  • Narrator Susan Zimmerman

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